Dataviz by Sunlight

Operation Black Buck by Section Design

http://sectiondesign.co.uk/operation-black-buck

A personal project inspired by reading a book about what was at the time the longest and most complicated bombing raid ever devised. The book itself had several illustrations which I found a bit lacking, so I had a go myself and it ended up being an A1-sized poster.

Fracture.io – openFrameworks and Unity for realtime body sculptures

Created by MPC Digital and The One Club, Fracture.io is an installation experience for The One Show’s lavish after party at NYC’s Bowery Hotel. Fracture.io allowed guests to “enter the digital space”, taking 3D scans of pose-striking partygoers to generate beautifully abstracted, full body 3D renderings.

Coffee Propaganda, A Colorful Animated Short Chock-Full of Facts About Coffee

Coffee Propaganda is a colorful animated short created by Hyun Ji A.J. Bae, Janice Ahn, Yoon Sun Lee, and Zach Eastburg at the Art Center College of Design in California.

Clever Posters Chart the Colors in Famous Novels

What colors are the insides of your favorite novels? Well, sure, the off-white of a book page — but what about the worlds they create? In artist Jaz Parkinson‘s color charts project, he has created graphic signatures of novels’ visual content, building mini rainbows that correspond to classic works.

Length of the average dissertation

On R is My Friend, as a way to procrastinate on his own dissertation, beckmw took a look at dissertation length via the digital archives at the University of Minnesota.

Inequality & Mass Transit in the Bay Area

A recent feature in The New Yorker juxtaposed New York City’s subway stops with their residents’ incomes. Like NYC, San Francisco has people of both extreme poverty and wealth, often living toe-to-toe. We wondered how those graphs would look in our neck of the woods. The results show the Bay Area’s economic inequality and its relationship with transit and urban form.

One hospital charges $8,000 — another, $38,000

For the first time, the federal government will release the prices that hospitals charge for the 100 most common inpatient procedures. Until now, these charges have been closely held by facilities that see a competitive advantage in shielding their fees from competitors. What the numbers reveal is a health-care system with tremendous, seemingly random variation in the costs of services.

YouTube Trends map shows most popular videos by region

I don’t know about you, but when I go to YouTube, I check my subscriptions and then look at what videos are currently popular. Because you know, it’s important to stay up to date on the most current news about kittens, people getting caught doing weird things, and movie trailers. The YouTube Trends Map is another way to see what’s popular, but from a geographic and demographic point of view.

Visualizing the School of Design

Visualizing the School of Design is a very data dense infographic poster that analyzes the School of Design at the Politecnico di Milano.

Stranger Visions, Portrait Sculptures Generated from Genetic Material Found in Public Places

In the project “Stranger Visions,” artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg creates portrait sculptures of people she has never met, based solely on their DNA.

Child Abuse Billboard Contains ‘Secret Message’ Not Visible to Adults

To try and do more than simply raise awareness of child abuse, the international nonprofit Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk (ANAR) recently joined forces with the ad agency Grey Group Spain to create a public service announcement that both draws attention to the problem, and may actually make a difference.

What Google’s Self-Driving Car Can See

Idea Lab’s Bill Gross recently tweeted this photo, showing what one of Google’s self-driving cars sees when it attempts to make a left turn at a junction.